Dr Tim Howell, Department of Music, University of York, UK, Dr Jon Hargreaves, independent scholar, and Dr Michael Rofe, Senior Lecturer, University College Falmouth, UK

'... a refreshing departure from the norm... carefully edited and interesting...' Finnish Music Quarterly '... the versatile assemblage of perspectives, critiques, and analyses in Kaija Saariaho: Visions, Narratives, Dialogues offers readers the opportunity to make an extensive journey into Saariaho's aesthetic world, or to go only a short way down such a path; to travel directly, or with many fascinating diversions and detours.' International Alliance for Women in Music ’... this volume, as the first substantial engagement in English with Saariaho’s music from an analytic-theoretical point of view, is a welcome and useful one.’ Music and Letters

• Contents: Preludes and codas; Part I Visions: Meet the composer: Kaija Saariaho in conversation with Tom Service; From the air to the earth: reading the ashes, Daniel March; Dreams about music, music about dreams, Anni Oskala. Part II Narratives: Stories from the mouth: flautists, bodily presence and intimacy in Saariaho's flute music, Taina Riikonen; Capturing time and giving it form: Nymphéa, Michael Rofe; Whispers from the past: musical topics in Saariaho's operas, Liisamaija Hautsalo. Part III Dialogues: Dualities and dialogues: Saariaho's concertos, Tim Howell; Dichotomies, relationships: timbre and harmony in revolution, Vesa Kankaanpää; Networks of communication: (de)crystallization and perceptual zoom in Du Cristal, Jon Hargreaves; Bibliography; Index.

Dr Tim Howell, Department of Music, University of York, UK, Dr Jon Hargreaves, independent scholar, and Dr Michael Rofe, Senior Lecturer, University College Falmouth, UK

'... a refreshing departure from the norm... carefully edited and interesting...' Finnish Music Quarterly '... the versatile assemblage of perspectives, critiques, and analyses in Kaija Saariaho: Visions, Narratives, Dialogues offers readers the opportunity to make an extensive journey into Saariaho's aesthetic world, or to go only a short way down such a path; to travel directly, or with many fascinating diversions and detours.' International Alliance for Women in Music ’... this volume, as the first substantial engagement in English with Saariaho’s music from an analytic-theoretical point of view, is a welcome and useful one.’ Music and Letters

• Contents: Preludes and codas; Part I Visions: Meet the composer: Kaija Saariaho in conversation with Tom Service; From the air to the earth: reading the ashes, Daniel March; Dreams about music, music about dreams, Anni Oskala. Part II Narratives: Stories from the mouth: flautists, bodily presence and intimacy in Saariaho's flute music, Taina Riikonen; Capturing time and giving it form: Nymphéa, Michael Rofe; Whispers from the past: musical topics in Saariaho's operas, Liisamaija Hautsalo. Part III Dialogues: Dualities and dialogues: Saariaho's concertos, Tim Howell; Dichotomies, relationships: timbre and harmony in revolution, Vesa Kankaanpää; Networks of communication: (de)crystallization and perceptual zoom in Du Cristal, Jon Hargreaves; Bibliography; Index.

Dr Tim Howell, Department of Music, University of York, UK, Dr Jon Hargreaves, independent scholar, and Dr Michael Rofe, Senior Lecturer, University College Falmouth, UK

'... a refreshing departure from the norm... carefully edited and interesting...' Finnish Music Quarterly '... the versatile assemblage of perspectives, critiques, and analyses in Kaija Saariaho: Visions, Narratives, Dialogues offers readers the opportunity to make an extensive journey into Saariaho's aesthetic world, or to go only a short way down such a path; to travel directly, or with many fascinating diversions and detours.' International Alliance for Women in Music ’... this volume, as the first substantial engagement in English with Saariaho’s music from an analytic-theoretical point of view, is a welcome and useful one.’ Music and Letters

• Contents: Preludes and codas; Part I Visions: Meet the composer: Kaija Saariaho in conversation with Tom Service; From the air to the earth: reading the ashes, Daniel March; Dreams about music, music about dreams, Anni Oskala. Part II Narratives: Stories from the mouth: flautists, bodily presence and intimacy in Saariaho's flute music, Taina Riikonen; Capturing time and giving it form: Nymphéa, Michael Rofe; Whispers from the past: musical topics in Saariaho's operas, Liisamaija Hautsalo. Part III Dialogues: Dualities and dialogues: Saariaho's concertos, Tim Howell; Dichotomies, relationships: timbre and harmony in revolution, Vesa Kankaanpää; Networks of communication: (de)crystallization and perceptual zoom in Du Cristal, Jon Hargreaves; Bibliography; Index.